Most Midwesterners have never encountered a rattlesnake—but the snakes do indeed exist in these parts, though their numbers are dwindling. While you won’t find them slithering along Chicago’s Michigan Avenue,…

Monkey business, it’s not. NIU anthropology professor Mitch Irwin recently won a $19,500 National Geographic Society research grant to support a year-long nutritional profile of arguably some of the cutest…

Scientists say ocean fossils found in mountains are cause for concern over future sea levels

September 20, 2016

Tiny ocean fossils distributed widely across rock surfaces in the Transantarctic Mountains point to the potential for a substantial rise in global sea levels under conditions of continued global warming,…